Summer 2027 PhD Applied AI Engineering Intern, Hardware AI

AMD is a semiconductor and technology company advancing processors, artificial intelligence, and related technologies. The Applied AI Engineering Intern will build and evaluate AI-assisted workflows for hardware and software engineering, integrate LLMs and AI agents with engineering systems, and support workflow automation, benchmarking, and performance improvement.

What you'll do:

• Build and evaluate AI-assisted workflows for hardware and software engineering applications
• Develop tools that integrate LLMs and AI agents with engineering systems, including compilers, simulators, profilers, and validation frameworks
• Support automation of engineering workflows through candidate generation, validation, evaluation, and structured feedback
• Collaborate with engineers and researchers to define metrics for correctness, performance, and engineering productivity
• Contribute to evaluation datasets, benchmarking, and experiment tracking for AI-assisted engineering workflows
• Improve prompts, retrieval systems, and tool interfaces to enhance AI agent performance
• Analyze workflow performance and help identify opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, and automation
• Document technical designs, experimental results, and implementation details

What they're looking for:

• Must be currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field
• Programming experience in Python
• Coursework or hands-on experience in artificial intelligence, or computer systems
• Familiarity with PyTorch or similar machine learning frameworks
• Interest and familiarity in AI-assisted software development, LLMs, AI agents, or engineering productivity tools